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Monsters and Revolutionaries : Colonial Family Romance and Metissage /

In Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs a political and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Verges, Françoise, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island
  • 1. The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Metissage
  • 2. Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children
  • 3. Blood Politics and Political Assimilation
  • 4. "Ote Debre, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentre": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony
  • 5. Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists
  • Epilogue: A Small Island.